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The Key to Hieroglyphs: Rosetta Stone
13 October 2022In July 1799 a group of French soldiers stumbled upon a stone that was set to change our understanding of the ancient world.
The iconic...
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Women Letter Writers in the Early Modern Period
13 October 2022Historians face an enormous challenge finding documents that tell the stories of women in times past. In this episode of Not Just the Tudors,...
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Russia Falters in Ukraine: Parallels with WW1
12 October 2022Russia's current conflict in Ukraine was supposed to be a showcase of military prowess, a quick war that solidified her status as a great power....
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FORENSICS: DNA
12 October 2022The birth of DNA fingerprinting will forever be tied to Leicester, England. It was invented in a lab in the city’s university by Alec Jeffreys...
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The US and The Holocaust
11 October 2022After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, thousands of German Jews facing systematic persecution wanted to flee the Third Reich but found few...
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Serial Killers & Misogyny
11 October 2022What is it with our culture’s fascination with serial killers? Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Peter Sutclifffe, Jack the Ripper….these violent...
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Ogham: A Forgotten Medieval Alphabet
11 October 2022Across the world, a wide range of writing systems developed in diverse societies and Medieval Europe was no different. Apart from the Latin...
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Karnak: Egypt's Greatest Temple
10 October 2022Located on the banks of the River Nile in Luxor, Egypt, the Karnak Temple complex is one of the largest buildings ever constructed for religious...
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Cuban Missile Crisis
10 October 2022In October 1962, the United States confirmed that Soviet missiles were being deployed in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy had to contemplate the...
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Escape from Colditz with Ben Macintyre
10 October 2022In World War Two the ancient fortress of Colditz Castle was used by the German Army to hold its most defiant prisoners of war. Located near...
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Malay’s Dynasty of Reigning Queens
10 October 2022The Sultanate of Patani - now part of modern day Thailand - enjoyed a golden age during the reign of four successive queens, which commenced in...
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The Romanovs
9 October 2022The Romanov family were the first imperial dynasty to rule Russia, reigning from the early seventeenth century until the Russian Revolution of...
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